Re: Complain about Christoph Martin
On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 07:07:03PM +0200, Sebastian Urbach wrote:
> Dear sir / madam,
>
> I want to complain about the debian package maintainer Christoph Martin
> who is responsible for the SKS debian package.
>
> I wrote him personally about software updates for SKS in the past. He
> refused to make 1.1.2 available as a debian package with no explanation
> at all
Please forward that refusal to 663757@bugs.debian.org .
> and was surprised by the fact that there even are updates for
> SKS. I would be ashamed to call myself a debian package maintainer.
>
> The right reaction should be to say thanks for the info and
> immediately start the work on the package update. His reaction till
> today is exactly zero.
>
> I wrote another mail with the info that there is another update
> available (1.1.3). No answer to that mail at all and i do not expect
> one anymore.
>
> The last mini-update for the sks debian package had to be done by one
> of the members of the sks-developer mailing-list, Daniel Kahn
> Gilmor. Everybody who is using the debian package on that
> list is angry about Christoph Martin.
>
> Imagine my big surprise when i found out that he isn't even
> subscribed to that list. And just if i thought it couldn't get worse,
> i received the info from Fabio M. Di Nitto who is also listed as a
> package maintainer for SKS, that he hasn't done any work for debian in
> years and probably never will be again.
Please quote that info from Fabio M. Di Nitto on a new bug report for the sks
package requesting the removal of Fabio M. Di Nitto from the Uploaders field.
>
> I hereby want to urge you to remove Christoph Martin and Fabio Di
> Nitto as a package maintainer at least for the SKS package. Even no
> maintainer would be better than those two. In fact there is no one in
> the moment.
>
> The probably most used linux server distribution is
> practically undermining everybody who wants to keep SKS alive.
>
> The members of the sks-dev list are working together with Kristian
> Fiskerstrand (sks-keyservers.net) to provide a free pool for everybody.
> And a lot of those people are well pissed off about the behavior from
> Christoph Martin.
Regards,
Bart Martens
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